Legislation· Mar 2026Sponsored by Brad Knott (R)
Aviation Supply Chain Safety and Security Digitization Act of 2025
Orders a study on digital documentation in aviation supply chains to reduce counterfeit parts.
Tradeoff
Requires the GAO to study barriers to digital records in aviation and recommend changes. The Department of Transportation must respond within 120 days.
What's in it
Costs less than $500,000 over the 2026-2030 period for federal reporting requirements.
The $500,000 is the federal cost to produce a report and departmental response — the bill's actual impact is on aviation supply chain companies to comply with any resulting recommendations about digital documentation and parts verification.
Passed the House by on March 24, 2026 — sitting in the Senate.
House
Introduced
(Nov 21, 2025)
House
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure(Nov 21, 2025)
House
The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure voted to send it to the floor
Reported by (Dec 18, 2025)
Committee report H. Rept. 119-546.
House
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Mar 24, 2026)
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Received from the House
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation(Mar 25, 2026)
- Hillary J. Scholten (D-MI)
- Jefferson Shreve (R-IN)
- Derek Schmidt (R-KS)